Richard S.Victor, is a Diplomate to the American College of Family Trial Lawyers and is listed in Best Lawyers in America; was selected as a “Super Lawyer” every year and featured on the cover in 2008; a Top Lawyer by DBusiness Magazine; served as President of the Michigan chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and served on the National Board of Governors of the Academy, receiving its highest honor, National Fellow of the Year. In 2014 he was appointed Chair of the Professionalism and Collegiality Committee for the national American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.
He was Chairperson of the Family Law Section of the State Bar of Michigan, and received the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999. In 2004 he was recognized for his leadership in the practice of law by the State Bar of Michigan with its highest honor, the Champion Of Justice Award. In 2000, on his 25th anniversary from graduating Michigan State College of Law, he was asked to be a commencement speaker and was given the law school’s National Alumni of the Year Award. He is the co-founder of Michigan’s parent education program SMILE; and the founder and Executive Director of the National non-profit Grandparents Rights Organization. As author of Michigan Family Law and Practice, and involved in being a leader in continuing legal education for lawyers since 1984, both in the state of Michigan and nationally, he has taught lawyers and judges that lawyers who practice family law have a higher duty to their clients than in most other areas of law. He believes that the work that is done by Family Law Attorneys not only affects their clients and their client's businesses, but will most probably affect their clients, their client's children, and their client's future generations.

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Richard S.Victor, is a Diplomate to the American College of Family Trial Lawyers and is listed in Best Lawyers in America; was selected as a “Super Lawyer” every year and featured on the cover in 2008; a Top Lawyer by DBusiness Magazine; served as President of the Michigan chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and served on the National Board of Governors of the Academy, receiving its highest honor, National Fellow of the Year. In 2014 he was appointed Chair of the Professionalism and Collegiality Committee for the national American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.
He was Chairperson of the Family Law Section of the State Bar of Michigan, and received the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999. In 2004 he was recognized for his leadership in the practice of law by the State Bar of Michigan with its highest honor, the Champion Of Justice Award. In 2000, on his 25th anniversary from graduating Michigan State College of Law, he was asked to be a commencement speaker and was given the law school’s National Alumni of the Year Award. He is the co-founder of Michigan’s parent education program SMILE; and the founder and Executive Director of the National non-profit Grandparents Rights Organization. As author of Michigan Family Law and Practice, and involved in being a leader in continuing legal education for lawyers since 1984, both in the state of Michigan and nationally, he has taught lawyers and judges that lawyers who practice family law have a higher duty to their clients than in most other areas of law. He believes that the work that is done by Family Law Attorneys not only affects their clients and their client's businesses, but will most probably affect their clients, their client's children, and their client's future generations.

Family Law Section, State Bar of Michigan - Past Chair; Awarded Lifetime Achievment Award in 1999

American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers - Former President, MI Chpater; Former member national Board of Governors; 2006 national Fellow of the Year; First recipient national Professionalism of the Year Award , 2016

Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America for work in:

Family Law

Awards:

National Distinguished Alumni of the Year from Michigan State University Collage of Law, 2000

Named to Best Lawyers in American for Family Law

Lifetime Achievement Award from the Family Law Section of the State Bar of Michigan, 1999

Hermes Creative Award for the book "You and Me Make Three", 2008

Distinguished Service Award, Oakland County Bar Association, 1994

Child Advocate of the Year, Child Abuse and Neglect Council, 1994

Champion of Justice Award, State Bar of Michigan, 2004

Diplomate to the American College of Family Trial Lawyers

Named as a Michigan "Super Lawyer" every year and featured on the cover with a special cover story in 2008

Meritorious Service to the Children of America, awarded by the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, 1993

American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers national Professionalism of the Year Award, 2016

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